COVID-19: Stock Market Impact Analysis

Introduction

Focusing on the S&P500 index and its constituents, this data visualization
project provide insight of the stock market performance during the initial
period of the COVID-19 outbreak (init data point set to February 2, 2020)

The project narrative contain two segments;

  • COVID-19 data and S&P500 performance
  • Company and industry specific performance

  • NOTE: all displayed data adhere to the period: 2 Feb, 2020 - 31 March, 2020

    What is the S&P500?

    The S&P500 is a stock market index comprised of the 500 largest companies that are
    listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The charts on this website represent
    performance data of the index (total value of all companies in the S&P500), as well
    as performance data of particular industries, sub-industries, and individual companies


    PART 1: COVID-19 DATA AND S&P500 PERFORMANCE

    This initial chart show the daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 for three geographical
    regions; China ("daily_covid_china"), United States ("daily_covid_us"), and all other
    countries ("daily_covid_world"). The area chart is accompanied by a bar chart which
    provides a better understanding of how the number of cases are distributed by share.



    DAILY CONFIRMED COVID-19 AND THE S&P500

    The market begins to plunge as COVID-19 gains global traction,
    as seen below with S&P500 index added to the previous graph




    PART 2: S&P500 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

    Industry Performance Analysis


    Sub-Industry Performance Analysis


    Company Performance Analysis


    S&P500 Constituents Performance Analysis by Geography (US only)



    Project owner:
    Erik Hannell
    M.Sc. Data Analytics & Visualization
    B.Sc. Business & Finance